One
of the crop of obscenely attractive young stars to pop up
during the late 1990s, Josh Hartnett has the kind of
strong-jawed, puppy-eyed looks that make him equally suited
for both movie stardom and Tommy Hilfiger ads.

Born in San Francisco on July 21, 1978, Hartnett was raised
in St. Paul, Minnesota. Following his high school graduation,
he attended New York's SUNY-Purchase, but his time there ended
after he was offered a role on the short-lived TV series Cracker.
He also did a number of TV commercials and plays, and in 1998
he got his screen break with the plum role of Jamie
Lee Curtis' son in Halloween:
H20. Although the film received poor reviews, it did
moderately well at the box office, and that same year
Harnett's profile further increased when he starred in The
Faculty. One of a number of films to exploit the
current trend in teen horror movies, it featured Hartnett
fighting off alien teachers alongside the likes of fellow
up-and-comers Elijah
Wood and Shawn
Hatosy. Although the film didn't do as well as
expected, thanks in part to the fact that the teen horror
craze was beginning to lose steam, it in no way interfered
with the increasing number of opportunities available to the
young actor.

Hartnett could subsequently be seen in a number of diverse
films; among his projects in 2000 alone, he played an Iago-like
character in O,
the teen re-telling of Othello; the son of Warren
Beatty and Diane
Keaton in the comedy-drama Town and Country;
and the paramour of the eldest of the ill-fated Lisbon sisters
in Sofia
Coppola's adaptation of The
Virgin Suicides. -- Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide

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